Card Procedures Research Articles

National Parliaments in the European Union – Toward a More Active Role?

The Lisbon Treaty created different possibilities for national parliaments to secure their greater involvement in the overall functioning of the EU and in the law-making process at the European level. Moreover, it was the first time that an EU Treaty specifically acknowledged the role of national parliaments in the EU. Among these novelties probably the most important concerned the Early Warning Mechanism that offers to national parliaments the possibility of examining new legislative proposals from the EU for compliance with the concept of subsidiarity through the so-called yellow card and orange card procedures. The possibility for national parliaments to make more active contributions at the European level also exists inside the informal political dialogue framework that is an important channel of cooperation among EU institutions.

Endoscopic recanalization of complete esophageal obstruction.

Complete esophageal obstruction (CEO) is a rare complication after radiochemotherapy that dramatically impairs quality of life. Within this study, we assessed the outcome of two different endoscopic techniques for lumen restoration in patients with CEO. 17 patients were included. Esophageal recanalization was performed in an antegrade approach (Group A) or through combined antegrade and retrograde recanalization and dilatation (CARD, Group B). Technical success, complications, and dysphagia development during follow-up (FU) were compared between the groups. In Group A (n = 6), esophageal recanalization was performed by a single endoscopist with a median duration of 47min. In two patients, antegrade recanalization led to formation of a false lumen (i.e., submucosal tunneling) followed by mediastinitis. In Group B, 21 CARD procedures were performed in 11 patients with a technical success rate of 100%. Procedure time was longer compared to Group A; however, no intra- or postprocedural complications were observed in Group B. In our experience and cohort, CARD was a successful procedure for recanalization of CEO, which exhibits a more favorable safety profile over antegrade recanalization. Further randomized studies to evaluate the treatment of CEO with CARD are needed.

Keeping Patient Credit Card and Payment Information on File

Keeping Patient Credit Card and Payment Information on File

RISK-ORIENTED TAX AUDIT

Lately we have seen changes in organization of auditors’ work. Focus is made on the complex analysis of finance and business work of the person being audited and, consequently on rejection of total checking and passing-over to checking based on risk criteria. As a rule the major part of finance and business operations conducted by tax-payer lead to tax liabilities on one or other tax. It is not always possible to check all finance and business operations and the efficiency of such checking can be doubtful. It is true that audit proofs collected by the auditor must be sufficient in number, however their number cannot compensate for their low quality. In this connection the article discusses the essence and methodology of risk-oriented tax audit and its key stages, gives examples of the risk card and control procedures of the organization. The author shows that during the analysis of tax risk factors of certain business processes the auditor can work out the optimal plan and strategy of audit and recommend effective ways of minimizing tax risks and eliminating adverse aftereffects of tax risks.

USB Data Acquisition Using Peripheral Interface Control Microcontroller

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have been widely used in industry applications. This paper describes design and implementation low-cost universal serial bus (USB) Data Acquisition (DAQ) which connected with computer through USB port and tested in SCADA system, the designed Data Acquisition build using new generation of microcontroller peripheral interface control PIC18F4550 which supported with USB module and it programmed in C-Language, the developed DAQ have 13 input analog channels and 16 digital I/O lines. At personal computer (PC) side, graphical user interface (GUI) application is designed using Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) program as SCADA software to acquire and monitor data and control all system I/O. The system consists of hardware part and software part. The main part of hardware is a data acquisition card, and the software part includes data acquisition card control procedures and PC software. The system hardware developed is a low-cost alternative to commercially available systems that use USB controllers. The work has been implemented for temperature sensing and controlling and the results shown currently support the hardware and software developed. It can be used for biomedical analysis, industrial temperature loggers, industrial process, instrumentation controls and in SCADA system.

The Effects of a Direct Instruction Flashcard System on Multiplication Fact Mastery by Two High School Students with ADHD and ODD

ABSTRACT The purpose of the present research is to compare the effects of a Direct Instruction flashcard procedure on the mastery of multiplication facts by two high school students with attention deficit hyper-activity disorder (ADHD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). Both students were enrolled in a separate high school for students with behavior disabilities. The effectiveness of the Direct Instruction flashcard procedure was evaluated across three different sets of math problems using a multiple baseline design. In addition, the effectiveness of various ratios of mastered to unmastered facts was examined. The overall outcomes indicate a large increase in correct responding by both of the participants during the Direct Instruction Flashcard System. An intermediate ratio of mastered to unmastered facts was correlated with fewer trials to mastery for each participant. The applicability of employing Direct Instruction flash card procedures was discussed and directions for future research were posed.

Preliminary clinical evaluation of meningococcal disease and bacterial meningitis by ultrasonic enhancement

Antigen detection in the urine and serum may be useful in the diagnosis of suspected meningococcal disease, especially after previous antibiotic treatment. Current test card procedures using commercial agglutination kits...

Acuity card procedures and the linearity of grating resolution development during the first year of human infants

Since the early times of preferential looking (PL), improvement of procedures to test visual resolution in infants has reached the point where the technique is spreading to clinical practice as it is applicable to a large range of age with a high degree of reliability. Acuity cards allow estimation of bi- and monocular acuity in a few minutes. Data from the literature, obtained with various PL techniques and procedures are compared to explain some incongruities. Procedures for presentation of the cards and criteria for threshold determination can greatly bias the data when they do not take into account the infant's behavioral requirements. To test the linearity of the development of visual resolution, a series of grating acuity measurements was performed on a population of 11 normal infants, regularly tested during their first year of life in optimal conditions. It was observed that: (1) grating acuity develops very regularly during the first year, (2) the two eyes never differ from each other by more than the smallest difference measurable with the equipment used (one half-octave), (3) binocular acuity appears to slightly exceed monocular acuity. These results stress the need for early detection of deviation from the norm and prompt therapeutic action.

Use of microcomputer-based image digitization for the measurement of wool fiber diameter

Microcomputer-based digitization of wool fibers was used for the measurement of fiber diameter and the derivation of mean diameter and standard deviation of a lot of wool or of a single fleece. The two systems utilized in this project were a Ladd Graphic Digitizing System and a Panasonic SR Partner-PC with a SAC Grafbar model GD-7 sonic digitizer. Using standard ASTM Test D2130 wedge card procedures, the diameter, standard deviation and coefficient of variation of wool samples were obtained. Microcomputer-based digitization methods decreased the time needed to measure fiber diameters and decreased operator fatigue compared with standard ASTM D2130 wedge card procedures.

Punched card procedures at the library of the university of Aston in Birmingham

A punched card system has been developed in the library of the University of Aston in Birmingham for making selective listings of periodicals according to various criteria. The library of the adjoining College of Commerce has also co‐operated in the project.

Meteor Magnitude Distributions.

view Abstract Citations References Co-Reads Similar Papers Volume Content Graphics Metrics Export Citation NASA/ADS Meteor Magnitude Distributions. Millman, Peter M. ; Burland, Miriam S. Abstract The visual meteor observations of the International Geophysical Year program give a total of over 120 000 meteors. These records are being analyzed, using IBM punched- card procedures. Magnitude distributions are being studied by methods similar to those reported by Millman and Burland at the 96th Meeting of the A.A.S. in 1956 (J. Roy. Astron. Soc. Canada 51, 113, 1957). In the previous paper it was found that the ratio of the numbers of meteors in adjacent whole magnitude classes was in the neighborhood of 3.5 for the Canadian visual observations, made in the period 1933-1956. The IGY-IGC visual meteor program includes the records of over 10 000 different meteors observed at the Springhill Meteor Observatory, 1957- 1960. A preliminary analysis of this material indicates that several factors have a marked influence on the magnitude ratio found. Most important among these are the total number of meteors included, the sky luminosity and weather factor, and the mean elevation of the meteors above the horizon. Individual values of the magnitude ratio determined from various groupings of the observations ranged from 2 to 4 with an over-all mean value of 2.7. The best value for observations made near the zenith under perfect weather conditions with a dark sky is 3.0. This agrees with the general mean determined by C)pik (Mem. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liege Ser. 4, 15,125,1955; Contrib. Armagh Obs. No. 26,1958) from 20 000 meteors observed on the Arizona expedition 1932-1933, but is a little lower than the magnitude ratio found by Hawkins and Upton (Astrophys. J. 128,727,1958) from super-Schmidt photographic observations. The magnitude ratio probably should not be assumed as constant over a large magnitude range. Publication: The Astronomical Journal Pub Date: March 1961 DOI: 10.1086/108578 Bibcode: 1961AJ.....66S.291M full text sources ADS |

Analytical Laboratory Operation and Control Utilizing Business Machine Punched Card Procedures

Analytical Laboratory Operation and Control Utilizing Business Machine Punched Card Procedures

Simplified Punched Card Procedures for Predicting Double Cross Performance1

Simplified Punched Card Procedures for Predicting Double Cross Performance¹

A Refinement in the Use of Mark-Sense Cards for Test Research

A MAJOR deterrent to the wider use of punched card methods in the analysis of psychological test data is the time-consuming and costly procedure which is necessary in order to punch the item responses into the cards. For this reason, most researchers have preferred to use the IBM test scoring machine for purposes of test scoring and item analysis. The use of the test scoring machine is limited, however, whenever the statistical design becomes complex, or the sample size becomes especially large. limitation derives from the necessity to hand sort all test papers, and subsequently to feed them one by one into the scoring machine. The speed at which analyses can be accomplished is, therefore, limited by the rapidity with which an operator can manually shuffle the test papers and then feed them into the machine. Punched card procedures do not suffer from this limitation, and recently techniques and devices have been developed which obviate the necessity for the time consuming key punching procedure. One of these devices is the Document-to-Card Punch which has been developed by the Personnel Research Branch of the Adjutant General's Office. This device consists of several components-first, a test scoring machine chassis containing a sensing unit and plug board. The IBM answer sheet is fed into the hopper of this machine. Then a tabulating card, with punched holes corresponding to the item responses, is prepared by the second component, which resembles a modified IBM reproducer. Unique identifying information for each answer sheet is transcribed into the punched card concurrently by means of the third component, a manually operated keyboard [3, p. 155]. Unfortunately, this machine is not generally available for non-government work. Several attempts have been made to adapt mark-sense cards as examination answer sheets in order to permit the examinees to record their responses directly on to a punch card. One of these applications was described in an article by Gage and Remmers [2] in which marksense cards were used in a self-administered student opinion poll, and

A Punched Card Method for Presenting, Analyzing, and Comparing Many Series of Statistics for Areas

Abstract Information about small areas such as census tracts, wards, cities, counties, etc., should be available to the consumer in a compact readable form. To meet the problem of multitudinous tables in large expensive volumes, the method described below was devised for the analysis and publication of data concerning the neighborhoods of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. By using punched card procedures, making use of summary cards, machine multiplication and other techniques, a set of cards was prepared containing the social characteristics of each area and including percentile rankings identifying the relative position of each area for a particular characteristic. The statistical tables were reproduced directly from the listing sheets. Instead of repeating identical heading stubs for each of the tables, one set of stubs was printed on overlapping tab cards bound to the right side of the book. This alone makes for a most efficient use of paper and reduces the size and cost of the books. This method of analyzing and presentation can be applied to data for cities, counties, and metropolitan areas, as well as to small areas within cities.

A Punched Card Method for Presenting, Analyzing, and Comparing Many Series of Statistics for Areas

Abstract Information about small areas such as census tracts, wards, cities, counties, etc., should be available to the consumer in a compact readable form. To meet the problem of multitudinous tables in large expensive volumes, the method described below was devised for the analysis and publication of data concerning the neighborhoods of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. By using punched card procedures, making use of summary cards, machine multiplication and other techniques, a set of cards was prepared containing the social characteristics of each area and including percentile rankings identifying the relative position of each area for a particular characteristic. The statistical tables were reproduced directly from the listing sheets. Instead of repeating identical heading stubs for each of the tables, one set of stubs was printed on overlapping tab cards bound to the right side of the book. This alone makes for a most efficient use of paper and reduces the size and cost of the books. This method of an...